Plasterer&#39;s nail



Patented Sept. 16, 1924.

STATES GEORGE E. 'VO'IGHT, F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

PLASTEREBS NAIL.

Application filed September 22, 1921. Serial No. 502,387.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. VoIoH'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Plasterers Nails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in 'plasterers nails adapted for securing and spacing wire netting on the wall sheathing of frame buildings preparatory to plastering; and an object of the invention is the provision of a nail for the purposes aforesaid,

1 formedof a single piece of metal and embodying 'a body portion comprising a driven or shank member provided at its upper end with an extension or upper jaw member, and a clamping or lower jaw member. The

connection between the clamping member and the body portion comprising a comparatively narrow section, which is intended to bend during the driving of the nail to permit the clamping member to move u wardly for cooperation with the upper aw for holding a netting wire therebetween.

With the foregoing and other objects and purposes in view which will appear as the description roceeds, my invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompan ing drawings- Figure 1 is a si e elevation of my invention, showing the nail partly driven into a board with the lower portion of the lower jaw in engagement therewith and a portion of the wire netting disposed between the lower and upper jaws, the board and wire being shown in section.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the nailas illustrated in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the nail, showing the relative position of the lower jaw after the nail has been driven into the board as far as it is intended to go.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 44, Fig. 3.

Figure 5 is a view inperspective of a. modification in that the lower jaw is not the nail, which is preferably a stamping from sheet metal, and has upon one side at its upper end an ouwt-ardly projecting upper jaw 2, and intermediate its ends a lower jaw 3, which is disposed in the same plane as the upper jaw and has upon one side at its lower edge a shoe l.

The arrangement of the jaws 2 and 3 being such as to form a slot 5 extending from the outer extremities of the jaws inwardly to the shank '1, which slot -operatively receives the wire 6 forming a portion of a plasters netting 7.

Upon the lower side of the jaw 3, adjacent the side of the shank 1, is an arcuated notch 8, thereby forming a reduced and operatively'bendable portion 9 at the point of union of the jaw with the shank. (See relative positions of the jaws in Figures 80 1 and 3).

The shoe 4 is intended to provide additional bearing surface for the clamping member 3, thereby preventing this member from penetrating the sheathing boards when 35 the nail is struck an excessive blow with the hammer in driving it thereinto.

In the modification of the invention, as shown in Fig. 5, the'shoe 4. is omitted, in which case the lower edge of the clamp-,, ing member 3 forms the bearing surface adapted to engage the face of'the sheathing boards. Such elimination of the shoe 4 may be readily carried out without impairing the functioning of the clamping member as means for spacing and securing the netting wire, provided the metal from 'which the nail is formed is of sufiicient thickness to provide the necessary bearing. surface for the lower edge of the clampingmember. In Figures 1 and 2 are shown the finished nail as manufactured, partly driven into a board 10, and in which construction the slot'5 is open to receive a strand of the wire netting 7, while in Figures 3 and 4 is shown the nail after its final driving into the timber and the lower jaw bent up into engagement with the, upper jaw 2 for permanently locking the wire in the slot, and at the same 'time giving the wire a definite spacing from The upper edge of the extension 2 is preferably inclined downwardly towards its outer end, thereby preventing engagement therewith by the hammer when driving the nail. Any such engagement would be likely to result in the bending of the nail and thereby prevent proper operation of the clamping member 3 for the purposes set forth.

The lower edge of the clamping member 3 is also inclined downwardly towards its outer end, thereby providing for the engagement of said outer end with the sheathing boards prior to the enga ement thereof by its inner or heel end, t us providing proper leverage for the bending of the connection 9.

I claim:

1. .In a nail of the character described, in combination, a body portion comprising a shank member having an extension on one side at its upper end, a clamping member disposed below said extension, said extension and clamping member and shank disposed in the same plane, and a, connection etween said clam ing member and said body portion, sai connect-ion having a notch cut in its lower side.

2. A nail for securing and spacing wire netting, comprising a shank member having a lateral projection on one side at its upper end and a clamping member spaced a dis.- tance below said projection, said shank member and lateral projection and clamping member being disposed in the same plane,-

the point of union of said clamping member with said shank member being substantially less in cross section along sa1d plane than the width of the body portion of said clamping member along said plane, the arrangement being such that when said shank member is driven a proper distance in a support it will cause the free end of the clamping member to en age the support and said point of union to nd whereby said clamping member may be caused to coact with said projection for operatively locking-the wire netting therebetween. t

3. A plasterers nail comprising, a shank member, an upper jaw member, a clamping member disposed below said upper jaw member, and a connection; between said clamping member and one of. said first named members, said connection having'a notch formed in one side for reducing its dimensions incross section thereby causing said connection to bend at said notch and said clamping member to move upwardly for cooperation with said upper jaw memher for confining a netting wire thercbctween, when the free end of said clamping member is caused to engage the support into Which the shank member is operatively driven a proper distance.

4. In a plasterers nail, a shank member havin an extension at its upper end, and a clampmg member disposed below said extension, said members and extension unitari- 1y joined together and disposed in the same plane, the upper face side of said extension inclined downwardly towards its outer end, the lower face of said clamping member normally inclined downwardly towards its outer extremity, the arrangement being such as to cause said outer extremity to engage the support into which the nail is driven and thereby cause a portion of said clamping member to bend and said clamping member to move upwardly into its permanent position for cooperation with said extension for holding a netting wire a distance outwardly from said support, in said permanent posit1on said lower face of sa1d clamping member being disposed in a plane substantially at ri ht angles with the axis of the shank mem er.

5. In a plasterers nail, a body portion comprising a-shank member having an extension on one side at its upper end, a clamp-' 'lower face of the clamping member being changed from its downwardly inclined position to a position substantially parallel with'the plane of said support.

' 6. A nail for securing and spacing wire netting, formed of a single piece of metal and embodying a shank member having an extension on one side at its upper end, the intersection of said extension with said shank member forming a crotch,-and a clamping member disposed below said extension and havinga projection adjacent its lower end adapted to engage thesupport into which said shank member may be driven, for bending said clamping member for engaging said wire netting and holding it in said crotch.

7 A plasterers nail comprising, a shank member, an extension at the upper end thereof, and a clamping member disposed below said extension, said members and extension unita'rily connected together and diswososo 8 posed in the same plane, said clamping member adapted to form means for limiting member having a notch at one end, the opthe penetration of said shank into said sup- 10 posite end thereof adapted to engage a support when operatively driven thereinto. port for bending it at said notch for moving In testimony of the foregoing being my 5 1t relative to said shank for cooperation own, I have hereunto afiixed my signature with said extension for binding a wire therethis 17th day of September, 1921. between when said shank is driven in said support a proper distance, said clamping GEORGE F. VOIGHT. 

